Running 2023 RIP thread for musicians

I believe that is short for “did you eat.”

 

Remain calm. It's just a dypo.

 

Who had the “Remain Calm” avatar?

 

Not the country singer Don Williams. This was Andy Williams' brother and last surviving member of their family quartet.

Don Williams, Last Surviving Member of the Williams Brothers Quartet, Dies at 100

 

Damn. Jeff Beck.

https://consequence.net/2023/01/jeff-beck-dead/

 

Robbie Bachman of BTO.

 

Not dead, but his career certainly is. Does that count?

El DeBarge arrested on multiple drug and weapons charges in California

 

His career was dead to me when he sang the song in “Short Circuit.”

 

Bachman Turner Overweight.

 

https://www.spin.com/2023/01/van-conner-screaming-trees-bassist-and-co-founder-dies-at-55/

 

That guy and his brother were large dudes. A couple of histories of the grunge movement have mentioned that the record label tried to get Mark Lanegan to fire at least one of them so they wouldn't be known as "the fat guy band."

 

Robbie Bachman stayed with BTO longer than Randy did, then refused to join the BTO reunion in the mid-'80s because Randy wanted to include another brother, Tim Bachman. Then Robbie came back around the time Randy left again, and sued Randy about 15 years ago when Randy tried to reunite with Turner (and without Robbie). They ended up touring as Bachman & Turner instead.